Today in Cycle Labs, we talk HTML5 once again — this time to explore the new possibilities of video in HTML in general, and one useful JavaScript library for video manipulation in particular: Popcorn.js. We present a simple page loading a video, controlling its playback and responding to events. Finally, a few alternatives to Popcorn.js are mentioned, and we discuss the adoption of the standard and support of video formats.

At Cycle–IT we are as excited as anyone else about the new possibilities that HTML5 and related technologies are opening up for software developers. Games, in its broader meaning, is a category of software which has been profoundly affected by all these changes. Today we present to you Cycletrons — a little toy by CycleLabs designed to showcase several interesting traits of 2D HTML games.